Gem Install failing: extconf.rb not pulling install.sh

[aThorp96]

During installation, the gem attempts to download install.sh from uwsgi.it/install, but the response body says the file has been moved permanently. Redirecting extconf.rb to pull the file from github allows the install to complete as normal.

[aThorp96]

It is probably also worth noting that when running the master branch copy of extconf.rb, the response of the http request was a 404...

[aThorp96]

This is still a problem after the 2.0.18 release.

[Wulfson]

Still broken Error in the logs ends up looking like:

/var/lib/gems/2.5.0/gems/uwsgi-2.0.19/bin/uwsgi:4:in `exec': No such file or directory - /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/gems/uwsgi-2.0.19/ext/uwsgi/uwsgi.ruby

'cause it couldn't build that file, since it couldn't find the install script.

[Wulfson]

I "fixed" this for my purposes by unpacking the gem and making the following changes:

--- ./uwsgi-2.0.19/ext/uwsgi/extconf.rb     2023-08-16 16:03:05.404760188 -0400
+++ ./uwsgi-2.0.19-PATCHED/ext/uwsgi/extconf.rb   2023-08-16 16:09:04.183706439 -0400
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 require 'net/http'
+require 'uri'
 
-Net::HTTP.start("uwsgi.it") do |http|
-  resp = http.get("/install")
-  open("install.sh", "wb") do |file|
-      file.write(resp.body)
-  end
+uri = URI.parse("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unbit/uwsgi/master/install.sh")
+resp= Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
+open("install.sh", "wb") do |file|
+    file.write(resp.body)
 end
 
 major,minor = RUBY_VERSION.split('.')

then repacking it and just using that instead